Rough crossings : Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution / Simon Schama.
In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to rea...
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New York :
Ecco,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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